Medium-sized tree, 4-20 m; bark smooth, whitish; branchlets glabrous, soon covered with a striate, whitish cork. Leaves elliptic-oblong to oblong, sometimes ± obovate, mostly ± acutely and sometimes obliquely acuminate at the apex, attenuate into the petiole at the base, ± equilateral, coriaceous to subcoriaceous, laxly but conspicuously pellucid-punctate and-striate, the younger ones red-brown, similarly in colour when dry, entire or nearly so, 5.5-15 by (3-)4-6 cm; midrib little or not prominent above, very so beneath, nerves 5-7(-8) pairs arcuate-ascending, mostly little prominent underneath, veins and veinlets densely prominently reticulated on both surfaces; petiole 1-1.5 cm, glabrous. Fascicles few-or rarely many-flowered. Bracts numerous, scariose, appressed-pilose outside to nearly glabrous, c. 1 mm. Pedicels 3-5 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Flowers white or greenish-white, often galled and becoming larger and hard. Calyx 3-4(-5) mm, deeply 5-lobed, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs outside, dawny or papillose-velutinous inside, somewhat accrescent in fruit. Stamens (6-)8(-9, rarely 10), equal; filaments stoutish, glabrous, 1.5 mm. Staminodes similar to the filaments, 1 mm, fimbriate at the apex. Ovary ovoid, glabrous or with a few pale hairs, 2.5 mm. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, orange to orange-red when fresh, fleshy, (3-)4-5(-6) by ±1.6 cm; peduncle 7-8 mm. Seeds mostly few, 4-6 mm, aril fiery-red.
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